On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:57:53 -0500, Andrew Zbikowski <andyzib at gmail.com> wrote: > Out of the box, to do everything you want to do...there is...Windows. > > If the shoe fits.... ;) Yeah - been saying that for the last 5 years on this computer... Guess I just get the itch for somehting new. I just cringe everytime I see the bank's online banking site up in Internet Explorer... WE have firefox, but seems like something don't work for her everytime she's online. > > > mount up old windows drives > > Why? Are you not totally converting to Linux? Or not totally > converting yet? If you're switching to Linux, you may as well copy the > data over to a Linux native partition. NTFS read support works, but > NTFS write support is another story..so everything will need to be > saved on the Linux drive anyway...so now your stuff under Linux and > your stuff under Windows is out of sync. Any distro should deal with > NTFS file systems no problem. During the time of testing distros and during the "migration period" once a distro is chosen, we'll need to read NTFS > > > feel like windows > > Again...if you want it to feel like windows, run windows. :) The :) > > > print photos > > Do you know if your printer is supported by Linux? That's the hard > part. From there you just have to decide what application you want to > print from. > Yes it's a HP and I use the HPOJ driver. Gimp seems a bit over kill to print a photo onto 4x6 paper - any other linux photo printing aps out there that folks use and like? > > email > > Personally, I perfer thunderbird with http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > installed. I've got the same mail client, with GnuPG support, on Mac, > Linux, and Windows. Sweeet. (Even have my girlfriend using it now.) Already use it. Like it just fine. > > > surf > > Mozilla Firefox. Pretty much the same reasons as I pick thunderbird. > Same program for Mac, Linux, and Windows. trying to get everyone to use it - even secretly replaced the target of the IE icon to point to firefox. > > Maybe to make this all easier on yourself you should grab the 45 day > Microsoft Virtual PC trial and install the Linux distros under there > until you find the one you want. > :D now that sounds like a good idea! > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list